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Comment by aslaf

Green buff is awesome for Resto Shamans. Got ranked yesterday night. Essence of Dreams: 4 889 732 healing done which was 34.2 % of my healing, 15,8% overheal. To all interested in tick/hits distribution etc logs in provided WOL and in screenshot (posted on imageshack as WOL will be deleted in some time): screen1.

Cheers,As

Comment by Runawaynow

I just wanted to mention a little bit of information I've gathered from WoL research and personal experience (resto shaman) with this buff.

I was looking at this spell as "Every time someone receives a direct heal via myself, that amount is redistributed across all raid members instantly." which would mean for every one of the ticks of Healing Rain on each of the 10 people in the raid, there would be 10 individual heals, each being one tenth the value of every particular heal that went off.

Now in the combat logs there clearly are not ~800 heal events of the Essence of Dreamsper healing rains duration, no there are about 60 per person every minute. In fact, exactly 60 every minute.

This means the buff, instead of being thought of working as described above, should rather be thought of like this

"Every second, all my direct healing (over-healing included) on all players in the raid is summed up, and redistributed again evenly to everyone in the raid."

Sadly this spell does not "double-dip" from shaman's mastery.

This being the case, it would be best for whoever has this buff to cast a minimal amount of HoTs and as much direct healing throughput as possible for the biggest benefit.